On 17 April, Bloomberg reported that China had overtaken the United States as Vietnam’s largest export market. According to figures cited by the news organisation and tallied by the International Monetary Fund, Vietnam’s exports to China …
When then Prime Minister Paul Keating visited Vietnam in 1994—a year before Vietnam normalised relations with the US and joined ASEAN—he came home convinced that this Southeast Asian nation would gain strategic weight. Today …
US defence secretary James Mattis recently made his first trip to Southeast Asia. Significantly, the visit took in Indonesia and Vietnam, both listed in Washington’s newly released national security strategy and national defence strategy as …
The widely accepted view that Australia is broadly in Asia without being part of Asia is being challenged as an assertive China, threats from North Korea, foreign fighters returning to the region and insurgency in …
Forty-four years after Australian troops came home from Indochina, the Australian Defence Force will help Vietnam deploy a peacekeeping contingent to South Sudan. During a visit to Hanoi last Friday, Defence Minister Marise Payne agreed …